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If you try Zorin OS you can still have people use their licenses of Microsoft Word so it won't be such a hard transition on people. Check it out at http://www.zorin-os.com/

Zorin OS is claimed to be designed specifically with Windows XP refugees in mind. They try to get the GUI essentials similar to Windows. It might be a smoother transition to Mint and eventually Arch (I'm kidding about Arch, of course).

I'm liking Zorin myself. I've loaded on a couple USB sticks to show it around and the useability tests pretty good with the XP crowd. It has an older LITE version for people with old laptops, netbooks, etc.. I have half a dozen XP machines that I'm going to scrub, load with Zorin, and then donate to people that can't afford a new machine. This is great because those old boxes were going to the recycling center and now maybe someone will get some use out of them.

It's /. so I can be pedantic. If you're running Windows XP 64-bit edition then you probably don't care about games as you're on an Itanium system.

Now, if you're running Windows XP x64 edition then that's a different story. In either case, you're likely used to not having drivers for your system as this has always been the bastard of the XP family and general availability of usable drivers weren't widely available until after Windows 7's release.

Microsoft is killing XP whether you like it or not. This isn't something like GNOME3 where you can take GNOME2 and fork it either so you are screwed regardless of what AMD does. I'm biased as I never did like the Fisher-Price interface but you should have a migration strategy RIGHT NOW. Find out what you need and get to it because the end is near. Move to Windows 7 and run Windows XP mode. (It sort of works on 8 as it's just a VM) You can run something like Classic Shell if it's a UI thing. For that matter, you could just run Linux and make it look like XP. There's even an entire distro designed around that! They even make you pay for the "professional" versions.

In short, get out. Get out now. XP is the Titanic and you should get to a lifeboat pronto.

Merk, pls, Linux has whatever GUI you want, and shell users would probably know what an OS is.

Are you looking for http://zorin-os.com/ maybe?

http://zorin-os.com/

I don't try to get Windows users to switch to Linux because they already own a PC loaded with Windows, but this looks interesting.

http://zorin-os.com/Zorin-OS is an Ubuntu derivative design precisely for this purpose.

Personally I think presenting users with a mock-up of Windows that isn't Windows is counter-productive because IMHO Windows' desktop environment is continually flawed and year's behind the current crop of open desktop environments.
Personally I prefer to show those who are interested the popular DE's such as Gnome3, Cinnamon, Unity & (less so) KDE in their unaltered glory as these show really how backward the whole 'Windows way' is nowadays.

http://zorin-os.com/ Based on Ubuntu 12.04, deliberately made to look and behave like Windows 7.

Never used it, but it's designed for exactly this
http://zorin-os.com/